Google has gotten very good at real-time search. We all know that they said they were going to make the attempt, but until we see such claims in action it’s just talk. Google started by targeting important real-time sources such as Twitter and it looks like other content sources are right on par.

Google is crawling the web in general with an impressive, seemingly ever-increasing frequency. My last blog post was indexed about 2 or 3 minutes after it was published. My tweet pointing out my blog post was indexed another 2 or 3 minutes after that.

Some news may not actually break on Twitter first; it’s good to know that “static” web pages are still players in the real-time search game. The fact that new content on my irrelevant site is indexed so quickly is awesome.